Oh no he dint! I dit. No, he dint! I dit! Dint! Dit! That was my right and left side of my brain debating Carlos Gonzalez as overrated. You’d be surprised at how often the two sides of my brain get in these verbal sparring matches. The left side of my brain was in the Debate Club in high school, so you’d think it was an unfair fight, but the right side of my brain conjured up an imaginary Debate Club with six imaginary debaters, an imaginary Debate tourney and an imaginary trip the Debate club went on where I lost my very real virginity. The left side of my brain is like, “Wut!?” Since the right side of the brain made up all of that, it’s understandable that the best argument the left side of my brain can come up with is ‘Oh no he dint!’ Of Coors, I don’t like going against Rockies hitters. This is the first time I’ve labeled a Rockies hitter overrated since I went after Tulo, which came out aces, prolly. No false modesty here, I’m never wrong on these schmohawk posts. You short a schmohawk and you’re golden. Like my Ocean Pacific Bermudas, these are the greatest shorts ever. Anyway, why is Carlos Gonzalez overrated for 2017 fantasy baseball?

Maybe in reality he’s not overrated, but we are talking about fantasy, and for fantasy, ESPN has him ranked in the top 30 overall (and Yahoo’s not far behind at 35). A’ight, but what you smoking? (Well, we are talking Colorado.) CarGo’s such an easy breakdown, so let’s get to it after this clunky segue. His career high in homers was 40 in 2015. That’s never happening again. Everything was goofy high for him that year. I mean, he had a 25.8% HR/FB. That’s silly even for a Rockies hitter. Why even discuss two years ago rather than the previous year? Because the previous year he had 25 HRs and 2 SBs. That’s fine, I don’t hate that, but top 30? I don’t follow the ‘Worldwide Leader’ there. I could see if he had just an off year in steals too, but ever since he struggled to keep his knee healthy, he’s stopped stealing. In 2014, he had 3 steals. 2015 brought two steals, and last year the same. I’m guessing he’s been chatting up Andrew McClutchin His Knee and he convinced him to stop running to help him stay healthy. It’s worked; CarGo’s stayed on the field the last two years, but it’s hurt his fantasy value. 30 HRs, 2 steals is not a top 30 player. Also, last year he hit .298 with a .346 BABIP. A slowing runner who doesn’t hit a ton of balls in the air (line drives or fly balls) and his BABIP could easily be .310, which is gonna make him closer to a .275 hitter. Again, not awful, but it’s not helping the top 30 case. Finally, and this is a total unknown, but last year he said he would be willing to accept a trade to another team. Why any hitter would voluntarily leave the Rockies is beyond me. I’m guessing he’s been in Colorado too long and is stoned out of his gourd to think he wants to play elsewhere, but he said it. I Googled that shizz! With Desmond, CarGo, Tapia, Dahl and Blackmon, it makes a ton of sense for the Rockies to trade CarGo like they’re on Alibaba. By the way, I just bought some Buddha-shaped pears on Alibaba. What a country (China)! I don’t hate CarGo, but top 30 is silly high for him and he’s been stamped… schmohawk! With a rubber stamp that I also bought off of Alibaba.

@Tigres: is this a serious question? How could there possibly be any way to factor in the likelihood of one pitcher intentionally walking a batter over another pitcher? What a bizarre troll you must be to ask such a dumb question.

And I’m sure there’s no change there anyway. A walk is a walk, its still a baserunner and will count against the pitcher. Only 1 monkey typist needed!

The 20 team Dynasty slow draft has begun…I’m picking out of the 7th hole (snake). After 2 rounds i have Rizzo and S.Marte…Hoping for Dozier or J.D. Mart coming back to me this morning.
OBP. league..No Avg….Helps Dozier some in this format. Big run on M.I. towards the end of round 1 as Trea, Correa, Odor, Lindor and Boegarts all went in order…(was hoping to get Odor in the second but no luck).

@Damon: Yeah there are 4 picks in front of me right now so we will see if JD and Dozier make it to me….Some people see the word dynasty and go way too young out of the gate…In a 20 teamer J.D. should be gone already.

Good write up Mr. Albright. CarGo is the exact kind of player I’ve come to avoid. You’re going to spend half the season thinking about dropping him and then feel rewarded only if/when he awakens from his slumber. But, timing being what it is, who knows when that’s going to come? See also Upton, Justin.

Curious on how you handle guys you don’t like, but apparently others dislike them even more? Specifically someone like deGrom whom you don’t like and ranked him mid 40’s, but his ADP is actually mid 60’s. Would you consider taking him there, or just ignore altogether?

Good stuff Fantasy Master Lothario Don’t Abbreviate! I agree 100%. And, it wouldn’t be a shock if he was a Latin 31. Peak year was age 24. Having said that, I wouldn’t have a problem taking him in the 6th or 7th…but he won’t be there.

@Grey: Thanks Grey. If I could follow-up…This league over the last two years has consistently drafted the top 20 or so closers betweem $10 and $23. My question is, with this new info, would this push Oh-$4 into your top six choices? Thanks again!

I should add, that I currently have no SS keeper (allowed to keep starting lineups). The pick would likely be someone like Kyle Lewis, Acuna, Vlad Jr., maybe Maitan, if he falls. I should add that I have Robles, Happ, AJ Reed, and Mateo as MiLB keepers at this point, and will have the 2nd pick in the MiLB draft, as well.

a. That’s how most break-ups should be. Not a description of how it’s all about me or I have to travel to a mountain in Tibet to find the REAL me.

b. Made it back, as you can see from N’Djamena (party, fiesta, forever!). Back to the grind, as they say in the biz!

c. Have a training in stupid N’Djamena from March 21 to March 24, with live drafts on March 26 (RCL) and March 27 (CBS). Problem is I won’t make it back for drafts in Farchana (where the living sucks but the Internet is perfect) until March 27 earliest! So, either I find a reliable source of the Internet somewhere in N’Djamena (still a possibility) or I curtail my mission by one day and come back on March 24. I could make up some bogus excuse to escape the last day of the training. Which option should I go for?

1. Find reliable Internet in N’Djamena to do my RCL draft on March 26.
2. Curtail my mission by one day. It would require me to dream up a bogus excuse.

a. Can’t believe I actually asked THE Fantasy Master Lothario (no short cuts, please) to make a decision for me for a professional question. I’m humbled by your kind assistance but really that decision should be mine!

Looking at ADPs, Cargo’s ADP is 48 on fantasy pros, which sounds about right. But that number is only from NFBC, CBS and Yahoo drafts right now. ESPN predraft rankings he is 32. So he will go higher on ESPN since most people drafting are influenced their rankings.

@Grey: Smokey has Davis as the top option of the guys I listed. You have him 30 slots lower than Osuna. You have Giles over Kimbrel, Smokey has the opposite. Are you saying I should go with you and take Osuna or with Smokey and take Davis?

Hey we were looking for a new mindless weekly cooking comp show to watch the other day and we came up empty after scouring every media platform we have. Know of anything worthy to watch but not really have to be invested?

Keeper question… Yahoo roto 6×6 with OPS, K/BB. Salary league with a salary cap of $145 mil. We use actual player salaries.

I’ve had Beltre penciled in as my final keeper bat. He makes 18 Mil in 2017. I’ve been thinking about keeping Schoop instead because my team has a high salary so I’d be left with only being able to draft minimum contract players or very cheap ones anyway. Schoop will only make 3.475 mil in 2017, so that would give me a lot more flexibility for the draft.

This keeper spot would be a UTIL bat…already have a good 2b keeper…this is why i was leaning towards Beltre initially.

Now I know in your rankings you have Beltre ranked way ahead of Schoop, but with this being a keeper league, perhaps schoop may be worth the same or possibly even more when you factor in their salaries and age? 30 Bombs and .260 avg with decent counting stats isn’t the end of the world for UTIL, right?

Rizzo and Harper are clear, but I kept Archer last year and don’t know if I can do it again. Seager would likely be a 1st rounder when take out other teams keepers, but I have some good other options I could keep late. Thoughts?

After reading your buxton sleeper post, i’m inclined to do it. It’s important to note that Kluber is my most expensive pitcher and I also have: Archer, Salazar, Paxton, Shoemaker, Dyson and E Diaz as keepers (we keep 13).

One is batting 1st and one is batting 8th, nothing else is going to change minus 25 runs from one of them, they’ll still both get 40-60 SBs

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12 team h2h dynasty. we just finished our NA guys draft (yahoo). 4 top names that won’t start year in majors don’t have NA tags in yahoo yet so they couldn’t be drafted. i have worst waiver as i won this mother last year. 28 roster active max, 5 NA max. rule also states you can’t hoard even one extra NA guy. if midseason a 6th or more than that guy gets tagged you have 2 weeks to make your roster only have 5 max NA guys. K’s, BB’s, Slugging, OPS, holds, QS, losses, HR’s against, OBPA

and 4. replace cain sugar with odubel? he wasn’t kept either. due to this few starting roster slots and only 3 OF, no CI/MI this is probably my shallowest league as far as hitters, but big enough benches that it’s much deeper owned SP.

In past seasons you had a page featuring all of the tiers for each position. It was like a spreadsheet, with each column a position, and the players filled in. Is that available yet? Kind of hard to make sense of the pitching tiers in all those paragraphs.

@Grey: Got Salazar..Most likely going bat and an arm next time around..I think there will be some good options…guys are drafting way too young too early…urius went 2 picks before I took Salazar??? Benintendi went before took Marte lol

I need 5 keepers in a H2H 10 team yahoo league.
I plan to keep Bryant, Arenado,Odor & C Seager for sure & leaning with Springer as well
Other options would be JD Mart, Abreu, Dahl, C. Mart, Cole, or Duffy
Is my thinking correct in this head to head league keep 5 of your best players every year?

just returned from cards vs braves –FOLTY pitched, first batter singled, picked him off, next batter walked, third batter singled, fourth batter up, picks off the runner at second AND catches the guy too far off first. three pick offs in one inning. freeman and swanson are both locked in, only 12 abs each, but nice to see already –Arodys Vizcaino threw 103, 99, 101 his first three pitches on satuerday

@WDH: you don’t need so many bench bats assuming this is a redraft league..you won’t use them much..better off with deeper pitching staff. Otherwise the team looks good, a little light on speed though .

It’s coming back to me…planning on grabbing C.Santana then 12 picks later Duffy or Maeda if Duffy is gone…took a risk taking Salazar over those two thinking they’d be there based on how the draft has been going..I’m getting close to being right..fingers and toes crossed

Is there an email address I can send my question to you? I want to post my team that’s in a 20 team dynasty league ( I won) and want your advice on where I need improvement for this year.
I just didn’t want to post my whole team on the message board but will if that is what needs to happen.

We just started our draft, 3 rounds mostly prospects with a sprinkle of non-relevant MLB ready players.
Where do you see holes? I was thinking of trading Blackmon for either elite pitching or elite younger hitter, but not convinced since im in win now mode.
Any advice for this team? I was looking at trading for Tim Anderson, Broxton, mazara and Segura. Not sure if it will happen.

Leaning heavily towards ponying up for Arenado since I want to own him again, especially with all those other 3B already off the table, but just wondering if Odor or Bregman are better keeper values. Other names listed just FYI but I have really narrowed it down to Arenado, Odor, or Bregman.

@Stumanji!: I’d keep Arenado…With Odor being my second choice …option B would be losing Goldy since you have Rizzo and keep Arenado and Odor and fill your line up out better…just a thought, Goldys price isn’t bad so tough call

@JeF WiTh 1 F: Thanks, F. I think Goldy’s price is too good to let go though. Rizzo and Goldy are basically locked into my 1B and CI sots all season, and that combo hasn’t let me down for the past 3 seasons. There is also a Util slot so at times I’ve carried three top 10 1B, which is very nice for power numbers and I don’t have to worry as much about getting a power bat at the leaner positions.

Important note that I forgot to mention: it’s an OBP league so Odor’s value is a bit suppressed in that regard, despite his great overall counting stats.